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Births

1840 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist

1857 - Andrija MohoroviÄiÄ, Croatian seismologist

1872 - Paul Langevin, French physicist

1876 - Otto Diels, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1907 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

1918 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate

1919 - Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist

1929 - John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist

1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist

1988 - Charles Glen King, American biochemist